Event

Doxacon Prime 2018

Doxacon DC Schedule 2018

November 2nd: Friday

6:00 PM Registration Opens (Atrium)

6:00 PM Vendors Hall Opens (Atrium)

7:00 PM Clergy Keynote: Protodcn. Peter Danilchick: Testing the Spirits: What
Reality Would You Like? (The Auditorium)

8:00 AM Reception: Light Refreshments (Atrium)

9:00 PM Registration Ends

Saturday

8:00 AM Registration Opens (Atrium)

9:00 AM Akathist (The Ballroom)

9:20 AM Opening Remarks (The Ballroom)

9:30 AM Keynote Speaker: Daniel Otto Jack Petersen: We Are the Ones Who Bump Back: Sacramental Monsters in the Fantasy-Horror Films of Guillermo del Toro and the Speculative Fiction of R. A. Lafferty (The Ballroom)

11:00 AM Breakout Sessions One

Session A: Jude Russo: Dune (The Ballroom)

Session B: Alexi Sargeant: Mana and MeaningTheology and Teleology in Magic: The Gathering (The Auditorium)

12:00 PM Lunch (The Ballroom)

2:00 PM Breakout Sessions Two

Session A: Steven Christoforou: Space: Where Hope Meets Despair (The Ballroom)

Session B: Leah Libresco: "Baited with His Blood:" Christ the Trickster (The Auditorium)

3:00 PM Breakout Sessions Three

Session A: Gaming Time (The Ballroom)

Session B: Jude Russo: Dune (The Auditorium)

4:00 PM Breakout Sessions Four

Session A: Zachary Porcu: Science Fiction and the Myth of Progress: How CS Lewis Space Trilogy Uses Medieval Cosmology to Turn the Sci-Fi Genre on its Head (The Ballroom)

Session B: Karen Ullo: Horror: the Genre of the Sacred (The Auditorium)

5:00 PM Vespers (Sanctuary)

6:00 PM Dinner (The Ballroom)